Systematic data acquisitions - A prerequisite for meaningful biophysical parameter retrieval?

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1709-1711

  Rosenqvist, Ake ^a   Milne, Anthony K ^b   Zimmermann, Reiner ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biophysical parameter retrieval; Data consistency; Data continuity; Earth observation strategies; Image mosaics; Long term continuity; Satellite acquisition planning; Spatial consistency; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Temporal homogeneity

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

REGIONAL SCALE INFORMATION NEEDS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 0042929767     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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